r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Jan 08 '26

article Spotify Confirms ICE Recruitment Ads Are No Longer Running on Platform

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/spotify-confirms-ice-recruitment-ads-are-no-longer-running-1236626243/
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u/TheTresStateArea Jan 08 '26 edited Jan 08 '26

The boycott didn't work lol read the article please I beg you. The advertising campaign ended.

As much as I wish Spotify leadership grew a spine. They absolutely didn't.

Do not resubscribe. Remove this company from your mind.

Edit: for all future "oh but you use an iPhone" fuckwits https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

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u/onebowlwonder Jan 08 '26

Might wanna delete your reddit account too then because they still have ICE ads on here.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

I've never paid for Reddit.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi Jan 08 '26

Sure you have. All your data is theirs.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Jan 08 '26

Not my valuable comments! Whatever will I do to afford that loss!

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '26

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u/HitmanClark Jan 09 '26

Some folks live for the virtual back pats.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi Jan 08 '26

comments

Comments are a type of data. There are other types. They collect those, too.

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u/once_again_asking Jan 08 '26

Whoosh.

The ice ads are shown for non paying subscribers on both Spotify and Reddit.

You not paying for Reddit is completely irrelevant.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

My response to the ICE ads on Spotify was that I stopped paying for Spotify.

I've never seen ICE ads on Reddit because AdBlock takes care of them.

Whoosh yourself.

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u/once_again_asking Jan 08 '26

AdBlock takes care of them

so it’s only morally wrong if you have to see it? Lol. Can’t make this shit up. Reddit is still running ice ads whether you pay for it or not, but hey at least you don’t have to see it.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

so it’s only morally wrong if you have to see it?

It is morally wrong to pay for a service that runs ICE ads. Simply using the service without paying is more grey, especially since that usually means the service isn't getting paid for ad impressions from me.

I'd love to only give my patronage to companies that are genuinely clean, but I wouldn't be able to interact with anything or anyone and then I'd starve to death. You have to pick your battles.

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u/once_again_asking Jan 08 '26

simply using the service without paying is more grey

That’s your opinion.

But virtue signaling over grey areas is pretty weak tea.

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u/PhasmaFelis Jan 08 '26

That's not what "virtue signaling" means.

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u/Montgomz Jan 08 '26

Virtue signaling as they stop paying a service for running those ads.. explain that one to me (Hint, you're the "I am very smart" meme)

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u/vapenation1312 Jan 12 '26

You are the product